Police Comics #32

(July 1944)

[The La Cucaracha Caper] (Table of Contents)

Plastic Man / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Cole

Pencils:

Jack Cole

Inks:

Jack Cole

Colors:

?

Letters:

Jack Cole

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; Simeon T. Whistlebutton (introduction); Mr. Ames (introduction); Ellen Ames (introduction); Pancho (introduction); The Mask (villain, introduction); Mopes McGee (villain, introduction)

Synopsis:

While on a vacation in Mexico, Plas and Woozy appear in drag.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Plastic Man Archives (DC, 1998 series) #3 ([November] 2001)

[The Crooks Convention] (Table of Contents)

Flatfoot Burns / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Milt Stein

Pencils:

Milt Stein

Inks:

Milt Stein

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; detective-mystery

Characters:

Flatfoot Burns; Jughead Jones (first appearance)

"Ah ain't heered fum Dewey in weeks!" (Table of Contents)

Dewey Drip / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

John Devlin

Inks:

John Devlin

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Dewey Drip

Indexer Notes

Writer revision from John Devlin to ? by Craig Delich 2013-4-6. According to the Who's Who, Devlin never wrote this strip.

[The Gates of Perdition] (Table of Contents)

Destiny / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

George E. Brenner ?

Pencils:

George E. Brenner ?

Inks:

George E. Brenner ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

detective-mystery; superhero

Characters:

Destiny; Death (introduction); Master of the Underworld (villain, introduction)

Synopsis:

Destiny meets a wrongly accused man and takes a bold gamble, using his trance state to secure an audience with Death himself. Although very angry, Death conceded that he was under orders "to keep his hands off" Destiny, so Death shepherded Destiny to the Master of the Underworld.....a red devil who challenges the hero to a duel. Destiny uses jujitsu to best the devil and return to the waking world to clear the doomed man of his crime.

Indexer Notes

The Who's Who lists Brenner as drawing the strip from 1941-1943. Thus a ? is added behind the credits.

[Thomas Hawkins] (Table of Contents)

The Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Spirit [Denny Colt]

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #5/25/1941

The Wolf Man (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Often a Bomb, Never a Dud (Table of Contents)

The Human Bomb / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Paul Gustavson

Inks:

Paul Gustavson

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Hustace Throckmorton

Indexer Notes

Writer credit revised from Paul Gustavson to ? by Craig Delich 2013-4-5. Jim Amash, in the Quality Companion, verifies that Gustavson wrote this feature through Police #22, then picked up again with #37. The intervening writer is unknown for this story.

[Doc Brewer's Tonic] (Table of Contents)

Burp the Twerp / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Cole

Pencils:

Jack Cole

Inks:

Jack Cole

Colors:

?

Letters:

Jack Cole

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Burp the Twerp

The Giggling Corpse (Table of Contents)

Manhunter / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Al Bryant

Inks:

Al Bryant

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Thor